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The Specials is the debut album by British ska revival band The Specials. Released on 19 October 1979 on Jerry Dammers' 2 Tone label, the album is seen by some as the defining moment in the UK ska scene. Produced by Elvis Costello, the album captures the disaffection and anger felt by the youth of the UK's "concrete jungle"-a phrase borrowed from Bob Marley's 1972 album Catch a Fire but equally apposite used here to describe the grim, violent inner cities of 1970s Britain.

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The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid-1979. The Selecter featured a diverse line-up, both in terms of race and gender, initially consisting of Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson and Pauline Black on lead vocals, Neol Davies and Compton Amanor on guitar, Desmond Brown on Hammond organ, Charley 'H' Bembridge on drums, and Charley Anderson on bass. The band's name is based on the term "selector", which is a Jamaican word for disc jockey.

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Album, 23 February 1980, Chrysalis Records, 2 Tone. 4. I Can See Clearly Now. 5. Something's Burning.

00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Everyday Things Are Getting Worse. 7. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - They Make Me Mad. 8. (00:03:25) The Selecter and The Specials - Too Much Pressure. 9. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Dawning Of A New Era. 10. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Do The Dog. 11. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Rat Race. 12. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Blank Expression. 13. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Rude Boys Out Of Jail. 14. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Concrete Jungle. 17. (00:00:00) The Selecter and The Specials - Gangsters. 18. (00:03:05) The Selecter and The Specials - Longshot Kicked De Bucket. 1994 - Selecter & The Specials - Live in Concert/13. The Selecter and The Specials - The Specials, Rude Boys Out Of Jail.

The Selecter's debut album,Too Much Pressure, was recorded at the end of 1979 and beginning of the new year, and was released in February 1980 by 2 Tone Records and Chrysalis Records. Anderson and Brown left The Selecter in 1980 to form The People. Their replacements were James Mackie and Adam Williams. Their second album, Celebrate the Bullet was issued in February 1981, before Black left the band to pursue a solo career. From 1991 she led a reformed Selecter for 15 years releasing several new albums. In 2009, she returned to the live arena, playing shows in the UK, Germany and South America guesting with various ska musicians and performing songs from The Selecter's first two albums.

Album: The Specials (1979). Charted: 6. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. songfacts ®. Artistfacts ®. Lyrics. This song is about a tour in France where The Specials were held responsible for damage in a hotel that another English band caused. My line in the song was 'They use the law to commit crime. Everything in Gangsters was about that trip, and it was a brilliant trip in the end because it gave us our first hit record - can't complain about that.